THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

January 16, 1976 35

Koufax, Spitz Among Notables in 'Superstars' Book

BY HASKELL COHEN

Several of the legendary
figures covered by Litsky in
his very interesting tome
are Jewish, and Frank has
many yarns on each of
them.
On Sandy Koufax, he
tell's- about the time when
Sandy first came up as a
wild, fast young lefthan-
der. Buzzie Bavasi, then
the Brooklyn Dodger gen-
eral manager, according
to Litsky, told Koufax,
"You've got one pitch —
high." A Dodger team-
mate complained,
"Taking batting practice
against him is like playing
Russian roulette with five
bullets."
I like the story Norm
Sherry, a co-religionist of
Koufax, who was quoted by
Litsky as telling about the
time Koufax loaded the
bases with none out. Sherry

(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)

'Frank Litsky is associate
sports editor of the New
York Times and has-been
covering the sports beat
since 1946. Since that time
he has met and become per-
sonally acquainted with
many of the sports luminar-
ies who have become leg-
ends in their own time.
As a result of his contacts
and experiences with these
American sports idols, he
has written a book titled
perstars" — the behind-
-scenes stories of 280
great athletes, which is pub-
lished by Deribooks.

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walked to the mound and
told his teammate, "If you
get behind on a batter, don't
throw your fastball. That's
when you get real wild.
Throw it easy."
Koufax took the advice
and it worked. "I will never
forget it," said Koufax.
"Then and there I realized
that there's no need to
throw as hard as I can. If I
take.it easy and throw natu-
rally, the ball goes just as
fast." Thus was born the
new Sandy Koufax.
Litsky, who culled his
material from hundreds of
sources, reveals that Sid
Luckman, the quarterback
of the great Chicago Bears
11, the dominant team in
the 1940's, was quoted by
Illinois' coach Bob Zuppke
as, "the smartest player I
ever saw, college or pro." --A
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and draw you every blocking
assignment of the other 10
Bears from each of the vast
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If you really want to en-
joy a well written, volumi-
nous, fact-riddled book, get
yourself a copy of "Super-
stars" by Frank Litsky. As
an added attraction you can
read an introduction by that
paragon of verbosity, How-
ard Cosell.

Gallatin, so we have had to
wait almost 200 years for a
We have an interesting bit; Levi to get there.
of information from Rabbi
We can match . Rabbi
Samuel Wrubel of Temple Wrubel's interesting bit
Beth Joseph, Herkimer, with another. When the Bri-
N.Y. who writes:
tish and the Americans had
"Re your West Point arti- their first confrontation,
cle, my son, who is a gradu- the song Yankee Doodle
ate, tells me that the 1802 emerged. The British played ,
class of the Military Aca- it on leaving. It became very
demy was 50 percent Jew- popular. The author of the
ish. There - were two gradu- song was a Dr. Shuckberg,
ates that year, one named who was attached to the
Williams, the other Levy."
British forces. It is said he
That is very unusual and was a Jew. There is no con-
-very timely, now that we are clusive evidence, but this
recalling the days of the may well be true. Shuck-
founding fathers. The year berg is not an English name
1802 is a little beyond the and even Washington at
1776 period of the Bicenten- Valley Forge had a Jewish
nial, but not very far from physician, Philip- Moses
it.
Russell.
The item is more un-
General Washington
usual because Jews are had a couple of Jews on his
supposed to be a peaceful, staff. The first man to die
not a military people. We in. South Carolina in the
are the people who want to American Revolution was
change the swords into a Jew, Francis Salvador.
ploughshares, but when Charleston, S.C. was the
there is a Chance for a nice largest Jewish center at
good fight for 'a good the time.
cause, we don't want to
In Georgia, David Eman-
miss it. Like David, he uel, was captured by the
was walking along the British and sentenced to be
green pastures, when he shot at once, but the British
sees Goliath. "You big gave him a few minutes for
bully," said little Da$id, prayer so' he jumped on his
"you talk like those Arabs 'horse and fled. The British
in the United Nations"
didn't realize that a Jew
and he belted him.
likes to say his prayers with
There were only ,about a minyan. Emanuel lived to
3,000 Jews in America in
become the first Governor
1776, but (the Levys were a of Georgia after the Revolu-
prominent family. Thomas* tion. There is an Emanuel
Jefferson considered nam-
county in Georgia named
ing a Levy to his cabinet,
after him.
but apparently was dis-
suaded from it by Albert

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)

NEW YORK — - Israel
Aircraft Industries and the
Israeli air force are battling
the tank-dominated high
command of the Israel De-
fense Forces over develop- .
ment of an attack helicopter
with a strong anti-tank cap-
ability, according to Avia-
tion Week.
The magazine said Israel
Defense- Forces Chief of
Staff Lt. Gen. Mordecai Gur
and former Deputy Chief of
Staff Israel Tal discount the
combat role of the helicop-
ter and are devoting heavy
funding to development of a
super tank instead.
This is in contrast to the
Egyptian high command,
which sees a strong attack
role for helicopters and is
expanding its present So-
viet-built helicopter force
with new British helicop-
ters. . ...

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IDAHO POTATOES

500 mile affair at Indianap-
olis.
The last Jewish athlete
covered by Litsky in his
fine, readable tome is Mark
Spitz, the great swimmer
who won seven gold medals
at Munich.

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our playing days the Bears
had 300 to 400 plays, each
with perhaps 10 variations."
George Halas, the owner
of the Bears, says of Luck-
man, "He was the greatest
player-director I ever saw.
He worked hard, stayed up
nights studying and really
learned the T. When oth-
ers left the practice field,
he stayed on."
Of Mauri Rose, the great
automobile racer, Frank
tells of the time in 1947
when semi-retired and rac-
ing for what he called .
"relaxation" he won the big

Israel May Export
Auto Parts to U.S.

NEW YORK — With mil-
lions of car owners holding
on to and maintaining older
cars, the repair and replace-
ment market is getting
larger.
Demand for these re-
placement parts has opened
the door to Israeli automo-
tive_parts manufacturers
who are planning to show
parts and obtain distribu-
tion of their products in the
United States.
The group — 12 prime
manufacturers ---- will ex-
hibit at the forthcoming
Pacific Automotive Show, to
be held in San Francisco
March 3-5. - -
This showing will be the
initial step in a program for
Israeli manufacturers to
show their production capa-
bilities in supplying parts
and equipment for the
American automotive mar-
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